Oscab beckett and james castelle



0 REGEN AND J. CASTELLE.

CALENDAR AND CARD HANGING DEVICE APPLICATION FILED NOV-13. I920.

Patented Apr. 26, 1921.

OSCAR REG-EN AND JAMES GASTELLE, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

CALENDAR AND CARD HANGING DEVICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 26, 1921.

Application filed November 13, 1920. Serial No. 423,931.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, OSCAR REGEN and JAMES CASTELLE, citizens of the United States of America, residing at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Calendar and Card Hanging Devices, of which the following is a specification.

Our present invention relates generally to calendar and card hanging devices and more particularly to the flexible fanciful hangers. commonly formed of either cord or ribbon with or without tasseled ends and usually formed at the time of assembly by passing the two ends of cord or ribbon forwardly through spaced perforations of a calendar or card and tying the forward extremities in a bow or a structure resembling a bow upon the forward face of the calendar or card. This, the common method necessitates the use of considerable skill at the time of assembly of the hanger with the calendar or card and it is the primary object of our invention to avoid this necessarily somewhat expensive operation by the formation of the hanger complete in the first instance apart from the calendar or card, in such manner as to permit of its ready assembly through a single perforation and without the requirement of skill in this latter operation.

In the accompanying drawing which illustrates our present invention and forms a part of this specification,

Figure 1 is a front elevation of a calendar or card showing the application of our, invention thereto,

Fig. 2 is a rear elevation thereof,

Fig. 3 is an elevation of our improved hanger as it is formed complete in the first instance, showing the loops attached by a clip, and

Fig. 1 is a similar View showing the loops sewed.

Referring now to these figures and particularly to Figs. 3 and 4 it will be noted that our invention proposes the use of a single strip of material, in the present instance a cord 10 having tasseled free ends 11, which is folded at its center upon itself and the side portions of which are then looped, with the bights of the side loops 12 brought together and attached, either by means of a clip 13 as in Fig. 3 or by stitching 14 as in Fig. 4:, so as to leave the free tasseled ends 11 depending below the side loops and form an upper central loop 15 which subsequently operates as a hanging loop.

The hanger as a whole as made up in the first instance is thus of the shape of a clover leaf so that by pinching together the side portions of its upper central loop 15, the latter may be inserted through the single perforation 16 of a calendar-or card 17, leaving the side loops and tasseled ends at the front face of the calendar or card so as to closely resemble the usual bow as now employed. In this position as shown in Figs. 1 and 2 the loop 15 extending as it does to the rear and above the calendar or card, forms an attaching loop and if so desired in order to avoid all danger of accidental displacement of the flexible hanger from the calendar or card after assembly, the loop 15 may be knotted close to the rear face of the calendar or card as indicated at 18 in Fig. 2, although it may b readily seen that this is not essential.

By thus constructing in a single operation a complete hanger of the nature described which requires but a single perforation in order to properly associate the same with a card or calendar and which avoids all necessity for skill in the assembly of the same with the card or calendar, our invention is clearly of great advantage over the hanger of the type usually employed.

We claim:

A fleXible hanger for calendars and cards with a single perforation, having central and side loops, of which the central. loop is extended rearwardly through the single perforation of a calendar or card and is provided with a knot at the rear of the calendar or. card to prevent accidental displacement and means connecting the side loops and preventing passage thereof through the perforation.

In testimony whereof we have aflixed our slgnatures.

oscAR REGEN. JAMES CASTELLE. 

